Nghe An quarantines woman returning from China suspected of being infected with Corona virus

On the morning of January 31, Mr. Nguyen Van Dinh - Director of the Center for Disease Control of Nghe An province said that Nghe An General Hospital had just taken a sample of a female patient and sent it to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for testing due to suspicion of nCoV virus. This female patient is being quarantined at the Department of Tropical Diseases - Nghe An General Hospital.

Isolation room for female patients suspected of being infected with Corona virus at the Tropical Disease Center - Nghe An General Hospital. Photo: Contributor

This female patient is 42 years old, from Que Phong district, working in China and just returned home to celebrate Tet on January 17. On January 28, the woman had a fever, cough... so her family took her to the hospital.

Mountainous districts of Nghe An such as Que Phong, Tuong Duong... have a large number of workers who often go to China to work. During the Lunar New Year, it is estimated that thousands of people returned from China. This raises concerns about the spread of the Corona epidemic.

Isolation area at the Tropical Disease Center - Nghe An General Friendship Hospital. Photo: Tien Hung

On the morning of January 31, the Hubei provincial government in China confirmed 1,220 more cases of nCoV virus, bringing the number of people infected with pneumonia in China to 9,356. The latest statistics show that the daily death toll is rising sharply, despite unprecedented anti-epidemic measures applied in Hubei province a week ago. As of the morning of January 31, 213 people have died from this disease.

These figures were released hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global emergency because the nCoV pneumonia epidemic has spread to more than 20 countries and territories around the world.

Tien Hung